In my previous blogpost, I explained why it is not true that economic development can prevent conflict. In this blogpost, I show how development-envy can,…
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In response to reduced demand for oil due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proposed capping production among member…
In the post-Cold War era, there has been a plethora of liberal interventions to ameliorate rising civil conflict, including peacekeeping, regime change, human rights shaming,…
With the 2020 presidential election cycle in the United States underway, even the media in the Rising Powers cannot ignore the pageantry of the Democratic…
Continue reading Policy Alert: US Democratic Primary Spills into Rising Powers
On February 24-25th, US President Donald Trump made his first visit to India, where he was welcomed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and an…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Lights, Cameras, and Little Action at Modi-Trump Meeting
An outbreak of novel coronavirus, now classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as COVID-19, began in Hubei Province in China late last year and…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers’ Politics Not Stopped by Coronavirus (Yet)
Tsai Ing-wen’s return to power last month means that her flagship New Southbound Policy (NSP) is here to stay. President Tsai’s long-term vision to integrate…
Continue reading Tsai’s Second Term Offers India Second Chance to Boost Indo-Taiwan Relations
Officials from governments around the world, business leaders, environmental activists, and social media influencers converged in Davos, Switzerland for the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Freeze Out Davos
The New Year began with an attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad on New Year’s Eve by protestors opposing US airstrikes against an…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers Rattled by Eruption of Conflict in the Middle East
The year 2019 was a tumultuous one for the Rising Powers. China and the United States waged a war of words and economics as trade…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Rising Powers End 2019 on Shaky Ground
November 13-14, 2019, heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa gathered in Brasilia for the Eleventh BRICS Summit and the close…
Continue reading Policy Alert: Is BRICS 2019 a Photo-Op or Is There More?
On November 4, 2019, at the 35th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, representatives from the ten members of ASEAN (Brunei,…
Continue reading Policy Alert: India Gets Cold Feet at RCEP Summit
The Syria-Turkey border crisis triggered by the US continues to create political reverberations in the rising powers. On October 7, 2019, United States President Donald…
Continue reading Policy Alert: US Withdrawal from Syria Reverberates in Rising Powers
The dates were announced late and the meeting was dubbed an informal summit, but on October 11-12, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime…
The 74th Assembly of the United Nations General Assembly opened on September 17, 2019, with the high-level debates following on September 24. The first Youth…
